Download or read book The 25 Rules of Grammar written by Joseph Piercy and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about the 25 essential rules of English grammar.

Download or read book The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation written by Lester Kaufman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling workbook and grammar guide, revised and updated! Hailed as one of the best books around for teaching grammar, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation includes easy-to-understand rules, abundant examples, dozens of reproducible quizzes, and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to middle and high schoolers, college students, ESL students, homeschoolers, and more. This concise, entertaining workbook makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated 12th edition reflects the latest updates to English usage and grammar, and includes answers to all reproducible quizzes to facilitate self-assessment and learning. Clear and concise, with easy-to-follow explanations, offering "just the facts" on English grammar, punctuation, and usage Fully updated to reflect the latest rules, along with even more quizzes and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar Ideal for students from seventh grade through adulthood in the US and abroad For anyone who wants to understand the major rules and subtle guidelines of English grammar and usage, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation offers comprehensive, straightforward instruction.

Download or read book Under the Grammar Hammer written by Lowell House and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents important grammar rules in an easy-to-follow format with tips for improving writing in both school and work settings.

Download or read book The Handbook of Good English written by Edward Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, The Handbook of Good English is Edward D. Johnson's comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to modern grammar, punctuation, usage, and style. Now substantially revised and updated, this essential guide is arranged in an easy-to-follow, topical style that takes readers from the rules governing basic sentence structure to methods of achieving effective expression.

Download or read book How Not to Write The Essential Misrules of Grammar written by William Safire and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-07-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fifty humorous misrules of grammar will open the eyes of writers of all levels to fine style. How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential misrules of grammar," those mistakes that call attention to the major rules and regulations of writing. He tells you the correct way to write and then tells you when it is all right to break the rules. In this lighthearted guide, he chooses the most common and perplexing concerns of writers new and old. Each mini-chapter starts by stating a misrule like "Don't use Capital letters without good REASON." Safire then follows up with solid and entertaining advice on language, grammar, and life. He covers a vast territory from capitalization, split infinitives (it turns out you can split one if done meaningfully), run-on sentences, and semi-colons to contractions, the double negative, dangling participles, and even onomatopoeia. Originally published under the title Fumblerules.

Download or read book The Everything Spanish Grammar Book written by Julie Gutin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning the ins and outs of a new language can be a long and tedious process - especially when it comes to grammar. Yet good grammar is an essential aspect of fluency - one you cannot fake. With The Everything Spanish Grammar Book as your guide, you'll master the grammar essentials of this beautiful language in no time, thanks to expert step-by-step instruction. Invaluable tools include: Verb tables for fast sentence structuring Chapter-by-chapter linguistic breakdowns for quick reference Reinforcing exercises at the end of each section Usage and pronunciation tips for speakers of all levels English-Spanish and Spanish-English dictionaries to give you the right word Complete review of verb construction Vocabulary-building methods Speak like a native with The Everything Spanish Grammar Book - your key to understanding the grammar, syntax, and sentence structure of the Spanish language.

Download or read book Rules of the Game written by Educators Publishing Service, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons on topics such as sentence fragments or parts of speech begin with several examples, and follow them with directed questions that help students arrive at a grammatical principle or rule. Following the questions and a brief discussion, each lesson has a definition, set in a box for emphasis. Lessons also contain boxed hints that aid students in understanding and retaining points of grammar. Exercises are both traditional and innovative, and provide practice as well as increase general knowledge. Students read sentences and pick out various points of grammar, but they also follow sentence patterns, write their own sentences, choose effective modifiers, or combine sentences. In all books, lessons build on each other: the lesson on compound sentences, for example, appears not long after students have learned what constitutes a sentence and right after they have been introduced to the conjunction. Each book also contains a Comprehensive Exercises section that provides review exercises and includes errors for students to correct. Book 3 includes work on dependent clauses, complex and compound-complex sentences, gerunds, participles, and infinitives. Grades 9-10.

Download or read book Grammar Rules written by Craig Shrives and published by Kyle Books. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive grammar book offers well crafted 'grammar lite' explanations as well as hundreds of tips and workarounds. A wonderfully lighthearted and easy to understand guide to grammar packet with real life examples and great quotations from Homer the Greek to Homer the Simpson.

Download or read book A Concise Grammar Book for Those Who Hate Grammar written by Ron D. Mead and published by Amethyst Moon. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve Your Writing Quickly! What spell check and grammar check can't do for you, this book will. For more than 30 years, Ron Mead has helped countless college students, government, military, and corporate personnel improve their writing. This book is an invaluable resource for editors, authors, technical writers, high school and college teachers, students, journalists, bloggers, public speakers, and for writers in the public and private sectors. See how to correct the most common errors. Clear, concise explanations help you to quickly grasp the grammar rules. A Concise Grammar Book for Those Who Hate Grammar is written in an easy-to-read format and is organized using a numbering system to make answers easy to find.

Download or read book The Rules of Love Grammar written by Mary Simses and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to her roots in the enchanting new novel from the author of The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café. Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come unmoored. A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting other people's errors, she hasn't yet found quite the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes. Desperate to escape the city and her trifecta of problems, Grace hits pause and retreats to her Connecticut hometown. What begins as a short visit with her parents quickly becomes a far more meaningful stay, though, as she discovers that the answers to what her future holds might be found by making peace with -- and even embracing -- the past. As Grace sets out to change her ways and come to terms, finally, with the tragedy that took her older sister's life so many years ago, she rekindles a romance with her high school sweetheart, Peter, now a famous Hollywood director who's filming a movie in town. Sparks also fly at the local bike shop, where Grace's penchant for pointing out what's wrong rattles the owner's ruggedly handsome schoolteacher son, Mitch. Torn between the promise of a glamorous life and the allure of the familiar, Grace must decide what truly matters -- and whether it's time for her to throw away the rule book and bravely follow her heart.

Download or read book The Dragon Grammar Book written by Diane Mae Robinson and published by Diane Mae Robinson Ink. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally! An easy-to-understand grammar book with fun grammar lessons. The Dragon Grammar Book is the ideal grammar book for kids, dragons, and adults alike. From multi-award winning children's fantasy author, Diane Mae Robinson, The Dragon Grammar Book introduces middle grades through adults to the basic rules of the English language with easy grammar lessons. Featuring the zany fantasy characters in the author's The Pen Pieyu Adventures series, The Dragon Grammar Book is sure to be enjoyed by the whole kingdom. "With clear examples and fun activities, this book is a must-have for readers and aspiring writers." -Peter Takach, English Teacher and Grammarian "Having a useful resource that engages students and includes a wide variety of grammar rules with short, fun examples is difficult to find. Robinson has produced a winner with this easy-to-navigate, all-inclusive, grammar guide for kids." -Literary Titan " I've rarely come across as well presented and entertaining an approach to what can be an intimidating subject, particularly for a young audience or for adults learning English as a second language. Robinson gets to the heart of the really puzzling aspects of grammar and offers them up in a format designed to make learning grammar more fun." -Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite "Author Diane Mae Robinson has written an excellent and fun book on grammar that children and adults will comprehend. Schools, libraries, writers, and readers will benefit from this easy-to-understand grammar book." -Barbara Fanson for Readers' Favorite "Do you think English grammar is fun? No? Join the club. It can be torture. However, there is a book called The Dragon Grammar Book by Diane Mae Robinson and it might just change your opinion about grammar books." -Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite

Download or read book 50 Grammar Rules Everyone Should Know written by Mr Castellano and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Castellano provides a clear understanding of grammar rules that are hardly taught in English classes today, such as the proper use of a semi-colon, the correct way to use a comma, and the importance of writing in the active voice. The textbook also contains 25 exams that coincide with content students must master to succeed on the grammar sections of the SHSAT, SAT, and ACT exams.

Download or read book The Chicago Guide to Grammar Usage and Punctuation written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Univ of Chicago+ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative guide to using the English language effectively, from “the greatest writer on grammar and usage that this country has ever produced” (David Yerkes, Columbia University). The author of The Chicago Manual of Style’s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Bryan A. Garner is renowned for explaining the vagaries of English with absolute precision and utmost clarity. With The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, he has written the definitive guide for writers who want their prose to be both memorable and correct. Garner describes standard literary English—the forms that mark writers and speakers as educated users of the language. He also offers historical context for understanding the development of these forms. The section on grammar explains how the canonical parts of speech came to be identified, while the section on syntax covers the nuances of sentence patterns as well as both traditional sentence diagramming and transformational grammar. The usage section provides an unprecedented trove of empirical evidence in the form of Google Ngrams, diagrams that illustrate the changing prevalence of specific terms over decades and even centuries of English literature. Garner also treats punctuation and word formation, and concludes the book with an exhaustive glossary of grammatical terms and a bibliography of suggested further reading and references. The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation is a magisterial work, the culmination of Garner’s lifelong study of the English language. The result is a landmark resource that will offer clear guidelines to students, writers, and editors alike. “[A manual] for those of us laboring to produce expository prose: nonfiction books, journalistic articles, memorandums, business letters. The conservatism of his advice pushes you to consider audience and occasion, so that you will understand when to follow convention and when you can safely break it.”—John E. McIntyre, Baltimore Sun

Download or read book Accidence Will Happen written by Oliver Kamm and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with 'and'? We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver Kamm demonstrates, many of the purists' prohibitions are bogus and can be cheerfully disregarded. ACCIDENCE WILL HAPPEN is an authoritative and deeply reassuring guide to grammar, style and the linguistic conundrums we all face. 'A unique and indispensable guide to usage' STEVEN PINKER 'An immensely intelligent and playful polemic, cheeky and erudite by turns...certainly gets the blood pumping, so do read it' THE TIMES 'A superb book' INDEPENDENT

Download or read book Under the Grammar Hammer written by Douglas Cazort and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answers basic questions about English grammar and explains how to avoid mistakes.

Download or read book Complete English Grammar Rules written by Peter Herring and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examples, Exceptions, Exercises, and Everything You Need to Master Proper Grammar Complete English Grammar Rules is a comprehensive English grammar guide covering both basic and advanced grammar rules. Learn proper English grammar with simple, in-depth explanations, featuring key exceptions, common grammar mistakes, and thousands of real-world usage examples, plus valuable grammar exercises-every topic includes a grammar quiz. With Complete English Grammar Rules, you'll be able to: Quickly master basic English grammar while learning more advanced topics along the way. Easily identify nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and other parts of speech. Master verb tenses and conjugation, including irregular verbs and exceptions. Learn about every type of sentence and avoid common writing mistakes. Test your knowledge with grammar quizzes designed to help you retain the most important information. Finally, you can get answers to all your questions about grammar. Complete English Grammar Rules gives you all the rules of grammar, all in one place, logically organized in a user-friendly format. Preface Grammar is without a doubt one of the most daunting aspects of the English language, an area riddled with complexities, inconsistencies,and contradictions. It has also been in a state of flux for pretty much its entire existence. For native speakers of English, as well as forthose learning it as a new language, grammar presents a very serious challenge to speaking and writing both accurately and effectively.Having a single, reliable, go-to reference guide should therefore be indispensable to those trying to learn, improve, or perfect their speechor writing. This book is that guide: a clear, unambiguous, and comprehensive source of information that covers all the relevant topics ofEnglish grammar, while still being easy to understand and enjoyable to read. Every topic in the book has been broken down into basic units. Each unit can be read and understood in its own right, but throughout thebook you will find cross-references to other sections and chapters to help make it clear how all the pieces fit together. If you're havingtrouble understanding something, try going back (or forward) to other related topics in the book.Finally, it must be mentioned that, because English is such a flexible, inconsistent language, the "rules" that are often bandied about areusually not rules at all, but rather guides that reflect how the language is used. Accordingly, the guidelines contained within this book arejust that-guidelines. They are not intended to provide constrictive or proscriptive rules that confine everyone to a particular way ofspeaking or writing. Learning how the English language works will enhance your engagement with speech and writing every day, from the books you read, tothe e-mails you write, to the conversations you have with friends and strangers alike.As such, mastering grammar is not an exercise that is confined to the classroom. While it is certainly important to learn the structures,styles, and rules that shape the language, the key to truly learning English is to read and listen to the way people write and speak everyday, from the most well-known authors to the people you talk to on the bus. Take the information you find in this book and carry it withyou into the world. -P. Herring

Download or read book 25 Great Grammar Poems with Activities written by Bobbi Katz and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching grammar is easy and entertaining with this special collection of lively "learn-the-rule" poems, companion mini-lessons, and engaging practice sheets! Each reproducible poem foucses on a key topic—parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, etc.—and is so compelling your students will really master these essential rules once and for all. A great way to reach and teach children of all learning styles! For use with Grades 3-6.